Palgrave Macmillan | Everyday Creativity And The Healthy Mind: Dynamic New Paths For Self And Society (2018 EN)

Author: Ruth L Richards
Full Title: Everyday Creativity And The Healthy Mind: Dynamic New Paths For Self And Society
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2018 edition (August 20, 2018)
Year: 2018
ISBN-13: 9781137557667 (978-1-137-55766-7), 9781137557650 (978-1-137-55765-0), 9781349718405 (978-1-349-71840-5)
ISBN-10: 1137557664, 1137557656, 1349718408
Pages: 390
Language: English
Genre: Psychology: Personality and Social Psychology
File type: EPUB (True), PDF (True)
Quality: 10/10
Price: 117.69 €


As human beings we all have creative potential, a quality essential to human development and a vital component to healthy and happy lives. However this may often remain stifled by the choices we make, or ways in which we choose to live in our daily lives. Framed by the “Four Ps of Creativity” – product, person, process, press – this book offers an alternative understanding of the fundamentals of ordinary creativity. Ruth Richards highlights the importance of “process”, circumventing our common preoccupation with the product, or creative outcome, of creativity. By focusing instead on the creator and the creative process, she demonstrates how we may enhance our relationships with life, beauty, future possibilities, and one another.

This book illustrates how our daily life styles and choices, as well as our environments, may enable and allow creativity; whereas environments not conducive to creative flow may kill creative potential. Also explored are questions of ‘normality’, beauty and nuance in creativity, as well as creative relationships.


Overview:
✓ Offers an alternative understanding of the fundamentals of everyday creativity
✓ Highlights the importance of “process” in creativity over the result
✓ Discusses how we can enhance our relationships with life, beauty, future possibilities, and one another
✓ Winner of the Nautilus Silver Award - 2018 Creative Process category

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